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A family in mourning...an ancient bard...a harp key that brings them together...
When fifteen-year-old Jen Morgan flies to Wales to spend Christmas with her family, she's not expecting much from the holiday. A year after her mother's sudden death, her father seems preoccupied by the teaching job that has brought him and Jen's younger siblings to Wales for the year. Her brother, Peter, is alternately hostile and sullen,and her sister, Becky, misses Jen terribly.
Then Peter tells Jen he's found a strange artifact, a harp key that shows him pictures from the life of Taliesin, the great bard whose life in sixth-century Wales has been immortalized in legend. At first Jen doesn't believe him, but when the key's existence — and its strange properties — become known to the wider world, the Morgans must act together against a threat to the key...and to their family.
"Readers will brook no interruption once they become immersed in the sustained magic" of this 1977 Newbery Honor Book about a boy who travels back in time to the 1500s, said PW. Ages 10-14. (Mar.)
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Thomas Wittkoski
reviewed String in the Harp on February 12, 2009
String in the Harp
I picked this one up in my meanderings through past Newbery Award and Newbery Honor winners. I'm beginning to think that the main criteria for Newbery's is that they include children dealing with some difficult emotional trauma. This one has three children who have recently lost their mother in a car accident. It is very well-written. I was impressed with the writing to begin with and thought it had hope as a story. I feel that the story fell flat and the struggles of the children in the family were somewhat irritating to me. I felt the two youngest children behaved as I felt they would in the circumstances, the oldest child and the remaining parent were frustrating and, in my opinion, responsible for the disfunctionality of the family. The book ends in a much better place but only after a rather disjointed and often unrelated story in between. The highlight of the book for me was the author's description of the Welsh countryside. I really got a feel for the wild, sometimes desolate, unpredictable landscape and the independence of this small but very old country.
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